[ofa-general] [PATCH] opensm/man/opensm.8.in: TRIVIAL addition in fat-tree description

Yevgeny Kliteynik kliteyn at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Jun 17 04:09:29 PDT 2008


Hi Sasha,

Mentioning in the man page that fat-tree can be used on
"symmetrical or almost symmetrical" trees, instead of the
previous "symmetrical" only.

Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn at dev.mellanox.co.il>
---
 opensm/man/opensm.8.in |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/opensm/man/opensm.8.in b/opensm/man/opensm.8.in
index d34b9c8..b5ffd24 100644
--- a/opensm/man/opensm.8.in
+++ b/opensm/man/opensm.8.in
@@ -539,10 +539,10 @@ loop in the subnet.

 3.  Fat Tree Unicast routing algorithm - this algorithm optimizes routing
 for congestion-free "shift" communication pattern.
-It should be chosen if a subnet is a symmetrical Fat Trees of various types,
-not just K-ary-N-Trees: non-constant K, not fully staffed, any Constant
-Bisectional Bandwidth (CBB) ratio.  Similar to UPDN, Fat Tree routing is
-constrained to ranking rules.
+It should be chosen if a subnet is a symmetrical or almost symmetrical
+fat-tree of various types, not just K-ary-N-Trees: non-constant K, not
+fully staffed, any Constant Bisectional Bandwidth (CBB) ratio.
+Similar to UPDN, Fat Tree routing is constrained to ranking rules.

 4. LASH unicast routing algorithm - uses Infiniband virtual layers
 (SL) to provide deadlock-free shortest-path routing while also
-- 
1.5.1.4




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